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AP Chapter 5 Upshur
Question | Answer |
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Between 500 and 1300, Europe's population grew from | 25 million to 70 million. |
The scattering of Jews around the eastern Mediterranean in the aftermath of the destruction of Jerusalem is known as | Diaspora. |
The Byzantine Empire outlived the western Roman Empire by | 1000 years. |
Charlemagne attacked these Asiatic nomads who had conquered the middle Danube Valley in the sixth century, destroying their capital, seizing their great treasure, and eliminating them from history. | the Avars |
reasons that have been suggested for the decline and fall of the Roman Empire is | economic collapse., lead poisoning.Christianity., soil exhaustion. |
systematized feudal relationships by demanding direct allegiance and obedience from all vassals, taxed the French clergy.tightened control over royal revenues by developing a special accounting bureau., brought additional territories under royal control. | Philip IV of France |
married an older widow named Khadijah., revelations he received from Allah were set down in the Qur'an., was born in Mecca around 570., left no explicit instructions that he was to be succeeded by his son-in-law, Ali. | Prophet Muhammad |
the Son existed only by an act of the Father's will. | Arian heresy |
beautified Constantinople by a large-scale building program. | Justinian I |
the requirements that members of the Qumran community had to abide by | be pious toward God, be truthful, be baptized, be just in dealings with others |
conflict with the papacy led to the election by French cardinals of a series of French popes who governed from Avignon. | Philip IV |
Herod's new port city was | Caesarea Maritima. |
By the thirteenth century, the primary merchants of northern Europe were the | Germans. |
"Hagia Sophia" means | "Holy Wisdom." |
the giving of alms.belief in Allah and Muhammad as his prophet.pilgrimage to Mecca, prayer five times a day., fasting from sunrise to sunset during the month of Ramadan. | five basic pillars of Islam |
baptized a Roman Catholic Christian shortly before 500. | King Clovis |
the prophets of the Old and New Testaments, including Christ as a prophet. | Muslims believed |
best explanation for the fall of the Roman Empire in the west is | intensified barbarian pressure directed against thinly spread defense forces. |
The "Vulgate Bible" was a translation into | Latin made by Jerome. |
By the late fourteenth century, the Italian city that profited most from trade relations with the east was | Venice. |
An independent Fatimid Caliphate was established in 969 in | Cairo. |
The Essene community at Qumran has been intensively compared with | early Christians. |
Around 500 C.E., the group that was not prominent in western Europe was the | Vikings. |
territories, which was conquered by Justinian? | Italy |
Peoples in the territories conquered by Muslims | often welcomed their new rulers and were rapidly absorbed within Islamic society. |
attacked the misuse of icons in eastern churches as idolatrous., tried to stop the diversion of many of the empire's bright and able men from state service into monasteries., transferred many rich papal lands in Italy to the patriarch of Constantinople. | Emperor Leo III |
What percentage of surviving Roman literature was passed on to later ages in Carolingian manuscript form? | 90 |
permission for the inhabitants to rent land and buildings, protection from arbitrary seizure of property, permission for the inhabitants to make laws, exemption of inhabitants from servile obligations | provision of town charters |
maintained that Christ's divine nature had absorbed his human nature. | The Monophysites |
During the Umayyad Caliphate, a particularly important and enduring Islamic presence was established in | Spain. |
Roman and Jewish officials arrested, tried, convicted, and crucified him as an agitator., was popular with the masses., believed the Sadducees had corrupted the Jerusalem Temple for personal gain. | Jesus, as he is described in the Gospels, |
first Islamic fleet was built under the direction of | Mu'awiya. |
Direct Roman control was first instituted in Palestine by | Pompey the Great. |
restrained Justinian's religious zeal and eased tensions between governmental authorities and heretics. | Empress Theodora |
frequently joined combat., accompanied their armies on military campaigns., Byzantine soldiers were shocked to see them on battlefields., played a decisive role at the battle of Yarmuk. | Arab women |
helped make which of the following a center for scientific studies Oxford | Roger Bacon |
could have as many as four wives. | Muslim males |
were permitted to own and dispose of property before such rights were enjoyed by women under Christianity in the West. | widowed women under Islam |
The Macedonian dynasty in Byzantium was established by | Emperor Basil I. |
Before 1000, most education in Europe had taken place in | cathedral and monastery schools. |
leader of Jewish rebels at Masada. | Eleazer |
offered education in the higher disciplines of theology, law, or medicine., were highly mobile and frequently had strained relations with their home towns., Gradually, wealthy patrons endowed colleges and universities with buildings and funds. | early European universities |
their struggle against the Umayyads because rumors spread that the Umayyad Caliphs drank wine., the growing wealth and increasingly secular lives of the Umayyad rulers caused mounting opposition.the Umayyads had difficulty attracting recruits. | The Abbasids |
God was one, almighty, all-knowing, just and merciful., Baptism cleansed individuals of original sin and initiated them into the Christian fellowship., God sent Jesus Christ to redeem humans and qualify them for heaven. | beliefs generally held by medieval Christians |
could gain deification by a vote of the senate. | Roman emperors |
conquered or made expeditions to England., Persia., Newfoundland., France. | the Vikings |
Most mystery cults came to Rome from | West Asia |
after Justinian I's death, his successors engaged in struggles with all of the following | Slavs., Persians. Arabs. |
By the end of the fourth century, the only legal religions in the Roman Empire were | Judaism and Christianity. |
The opponents at the Battle of the Camel were | Ali and Aisha. |
area conquered by Muslims was | Arabia., Spain., Syria. |
chosen from the imperial family by the army., sat as the final court of judicial appeal., By the fifth c. , normally crowned & consecrated by the patriarch of Constantinople., | Byzantine emperor |
Offensive warfare in the feudal system was dominated by | armed and mounted knights. |
The Magyars were nomadic ancestors of modern | Hungarians. |
The most influential scholastic thinker was | Thomas Aquinas. |
The most severe persecution of Christians was begun by | Diocletian in 303. |
Shi'i predominate or constitute a sizable presence | the eastern Arabian peninsula., Lebanon., Iran., Iraq. |
The movement of these nomad horsemen westward out of the steppes of Asia resulted in increased pressure on the borders of the Roman Empire. The same people fought with the forces of the Han Empire. | Huns |
recent religious imports to the early Roman Empire were the cults of | Isis and Mithras. |
liberal arts in the Middle Ages | arithmetic, geometry, rhetoric, logic |
problems the Christian faced in western Europe in first few centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire was | reduction of its territory owing to the expansion of Islam., prevalence of superstition., doctrinal and organizational differences between Greek and Latin churches.@Roman prefect. |
problems the Christian faced in western Europe in first few centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire was | reduction of its territory owing to the expansion of Islam., prevalence of superstition., doctrinal and organizational differences between Greek and Latin churches. |
Roman prefect. | Pontius Pilate, |
pposition to the Umayyad Caliphate gained a martyr and rallying point with the death of | Husayn. |
regulated prices., supervised wages., saw to the proper burial of deceased members. | Guilds |
During the fourteenth century in Europe, | ravaging armies destroyed crops, barns, and mills., bubonic plague ravaged the population., the climate became colder and rainier. |
In or shortly before the thirteenth century, | the Paleologi dynasty recovered Constantinople. |
in the Muslim world were not generally used as agricultural labor. | Slaves |
strictly regulated slavery. | Islamic law |
Especially prominent in medieval romances was | King Arthur |
made England Europe's best-governed twelfth-century state. | Henry II of England |
the rapidity of the expansion of the Muslim/Arab Empire was | The fervent faith of the Muslims and the equalitarian nature of the religion. |
known for his use of logical reasoning in theology, even as a method to prove God's existence. | Anselm of Bec |
The warriors of the First Crusade massacred the them in several Rhineland towns. | Jews in the Middle Ages |
were excluded from most occupations, except trading and money lending. | Jews in the Middle Ages |
Third Lateran Council forbade Christians to live near | Jews in the Middle Ages |
Christians unreasonably believed that they were collectively responsible for Christ's death. | Jews in the Middle Ages |
The churches built in France during the eleventh century totaled | more than 1500. |
The hajj commemorated the hijrah, that is, the | flight of Muhammad from his enemies in Mecca in 622. |
territories under the control of the Carolingian Empire was that of present-day | Netherlands., France., Luxembourg., Belgium. |
The Magna Carta was issued by | important barons |
in his letter to Pliny the Younger regarding policy to be followed in dealing with Christians, said that if they are brought before you and convicted, they should be punished. | Emperor Trajan |
Besides nobles, the only fully free persons in the early Germanic states of western Europe were | merchants and clergy. |
The man known as "the Apostle to the Gentiles" was | Paul. |
"Man cannot live on bread alone.." According to the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus concludes this thought by saying | "he lives on every word that God utters." |
area of significant trade in medieval Europe? | Italy, France, Spain, central Europe |
A problem faced by the peasantry in the fourteenth century was | high rents., general exemption of clergy and nobles from royal taxation., warfare. |
Vassals were obligated to serves their lords militarily., the vassal of a greater lord and the lord of lesser vassals., A vassal to serve in the lord's court of justice and to feed and house the lord and his traveling companions when required. | early feudalism |
The temptation of Jesus during his forty days and nights in the desert is somewhat like the temptation of | Buddha. |
A poem that recounted the ambush of a detachment of Charlemagne's army at Roncevaux was the | Song of Roland. |
were divergences among groups such as the Sadducees and Pharisees.,The destruction of the temple in Jerusalem permanently embittered Jews against Romans., The Zealots and Sicarii urged armed insurrection. | Judaism or Jewish-Roman relations in the early Roman Empire |
The grandson of Charlemagne gained the westernmost portion of his father's empire was | Charles. |
Between 1348 and 1354, the population of Europe was reduced by about | 33 percent. |
The first recorded persecution of Christians took place during the reign of | Nero. |
Paul of Tarsus was a | Jew. |
Most convicted heretics were put to death by governments, not by the church., Those accused were denied legal counsel and interrogated by torture., Pope Gregory IX established a central tribunal staffed by Dominicans and Franciscans. | Inquisition |
an element in the typical manor village was | a wooded area., pasture land., a stream., a church. |
did not have direct control of the masses. | Feudal kings |
Mu'awiya established a new Islamic capital at | Damascus. |
Typical of the Cistercian type of monasticism was | the building their monasteries in wilderness areas to avoid contact with worldly society. |
The literal translation of "sicarii" is | dagger-men. |